More swimming records for PSUs Anton at New England Championships

Feb 19, 2005

WALTHAM, Mass. - For the second straight day,
sophomore Cait Anton (Woolwich, Maine) broke her
own school backstroke record twice to highlight Plymouth State
University's performance Saturday on Day Two of the New England
Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, hosted by Bentley
College.

The Panthers as a team have scored 123 points and are in 11th
place among 22 schools in the three-day event. Bentley leads
the standings with 630 points, with Brandeis second (496) and Keene
State third (413).

Anton, who broke school records in both the 200-yard backstroke
preliminaries and finals on Friday, repeated the record-breaking
performance in Saturday's 100-yard backstroke. She finished
seventh and set a new mark in the preliminaries with a time of
1:05.51, to break the mark of 1:05.52 she set at last year's
championships. She lowered the standard more than a second in
the consolation finals with a clocking of 1:04.43, bringing home a
seventh-place finish.

Anton also swam the leadoff leg on both of PSU's relay teams on
Saturday. She was followed by sophomore Katie
Bouffard (Essex Jct., Vt.) and freshmen Erin
Musto (Westford, Mass.), and Christina
DiGiacomo (Meriden, Conn.) on the 200-yard medley relay
team that placed 14th, and she was followed by freshmen
Melissa Walczak (Farmington, Conn.),
Kristen Mulcahy (Pawtucket, R.I.) and DiGiacomo on
the 800-yard freestyle relay team that took 11th.

The other top PSU individual performances came from DiGiacomo,
who placed 12th in the 200-yard free (season-best 2:09.39), and
Musto, who finished 15th in the 1,000-yard free (season-best
12:12.68).

The competition concludes Sunday with preliminaries in the
morning and afternoon and finals in the evening.